The University of British Columbia
Midterm 1 - February 3, 2012
Mathematics 105, 2011W T2
Section 203
Closed book examination
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Time: 50 minutes
First
SID
Instructor name: Keqin Liu
Special Instructions:
1. A separate formula sheet will be provided. No books, notes, or calculators are allowed.
Unless it is otherwise specified, answers may be left in“calculator-ready” form. Simplification of the final answer is worth at most one point.
2. Show all your work. A correct answer without accompanying work will get no credit.
3. If you need more space than the space provided, use the back of the previous page. Where
boxes are provided for answers, put your final answers in them.
Rules governing examinations
• Each candidate must be prepared to produce, upon request,
a UBCcard for identification.
• Candidates are not permitted to ask questions of the invigilators, except in cases of supposed errors or ambiguities in
examination questions.
• No candidate shall be permitted to enter the examination
room after the expiration of one-half hour from the scheduled starting time, or to leave during the first half hour of
the examination.
• Candidates suspected of any of the following, or similar,
dishonest practices shall be immediately dismissed from the
examination and shall be liable to disciplinary action.
(a) Having at the place of writing any books, papers
or memoranda, calculators, computers, sound or image players/recorders/transmitters (including telephones), or other memory aid devices, other than
those authorized by the examiners.
Q
Points
Max
1
50
2
20
3
20
4
10
5 (extra credit)
10
Total
100
(b) Speaking or communicating with other candidates.
(c) Purposely exposing written papers to the view of
other candidates or imaging devices. The plea of accident or forgetfulness shall not be received.
• Candidates must not destroy or mutilate any examination
material; must hand in all examination papers; and must
not take any examination material from the examination
room without permission of the invigilator.
• Candidates must follow any additional examination rules or
directions communicated by the instructor or invigilator.
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1. (a) You are given a function f (x, y) with the following properties:
f (1, 2) = 0,
fy (1, 2) = −10,
f (1.2, 1.9) = −1.
Use this information to estimate fx (1, 2).
(8 points)
(b) Let v = h1, 2, −3i and w = h4, 0, 1i. Are the two vectors v and w parallel, perpendicular or neither? Justify your answer.
(8 points)
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√
(c) Find a unit vector parallel to h3, −2, 3i.
(8 points)
(d) A function f (x) is defined on the interval [−2, 4] as follows:
f (−2) = f (2) = f (4) = 0,
f (0) = 4,
f (3) = −1,
and the graph of f consists of straight line segments joining these points. Compute
the value of the integral
Z 4
f (x) dx.
−2
(8 points)
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(e) You are given a function f which has continuous partial derivatives of all orders and
for which fxy (x, y) = x2 y + xy 2 . Use this information to find fyxy . State clearly any
result that you use.
(8 points)
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(f) Let R be the semicircular region {x2 + y 2 ≤ 9, y ≥ 0}. Find the maximum and minimum values of the function
f (x, y) = x2 + y 2 − 4y
on the boundary of the region R.
(10 points)
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2. Find all critical points of the function
f (x, y) = 3x2 − 6xy + y 3 − 9y.
Classify each point as a local maximum, local minimum, or saddle point.
( 10 + 10 = 20 points)
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3. A company wishes to build a new warehouse. It should be situated on the northeast
quarter of the Oval, an expressway whose shape is given by the equation
x2 y 2
+
= 1.
9
16
Here x and y are measured in kilometers. From the company’s point of view, the desirability of a location on the Oval is measured by the sum of its horizontal and vertical
distances from the origin. The larger the sum is, the more desirable the location is. Find
using the method of Lagrange multipliers the location on the Oval that is most desirable
to the company.
Clearly state the objective function and the constraint. There is no need to justify that
the solution you obtained is the absolute max or min. A solution that does not use
the method of Lagrange multipliers will receive no credit, even if it is correct.
(20 points)
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4. Consider the surface S given by
y2
z2
x−
= .
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(a) Sketch the traces of S in the z = 0 and x = 1 planes.
(3 + 3 = 6 points)
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(b) Based on the traces you sketched above, which of the following renderings represents
the graph of the surface?
(4 points)
A
B
C
D
E
F
1
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5. (Extra credit) Transform the limit of the following Riemann sum to a definite integral:
n
X
1
1
lim
.
n→∞
n1+ k 2
k=1
n
(10 points)
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Formula Sheet
You may refer to these formulae if necessary.
n
X
k=
k=1
n
X
k2 =
n(n + 1)(2n + 1)
6
k3 =
n2 (n + 1)2
.
4
k=1
n
X
k=1
n(n + 1)
2